1 Corinthians 10:10

Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
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Ambrosiaster

AD 400
Those who were destroyed prefigured Judas, who betrayed Christ and was eliminated from the number of the apostles by the judgment of God. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

Cornelius a Lapide

AD 1637
As some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer, i.e, the angel by whom God inflicted punishment on the Hebrews for murmuring, because Korah and his followers were swallowed up alive by the earth. Fourteen thousand seven hundred perished by fire (see Numbers 16:30, Numbers 16:25, Numbers 16:40, Numbers 16:45; Wisd18:20; Anselm in loco). This angel seems to have been Michael, the leader of the people, the giver of the law on Sinai and its vindicator, and a type of Christ, as was said just now (see Exodus 23:21). Others suppose that this "destroyer" was an evil angel or a devil, and refer to Psalm 78:49. But the Psalmist is speaking of the plague sent on the Egyptians, but Paul of those that God inflicted on the Hebrews. Besides, it is truer to say that the plagues were inflicted on the Egyptians by good angels, not by evil ones; for, as S. Augustine says, when commenting in Psalm 78:49, it is well known that it was by good angels that Moses turned the water into...

John Chrysostom

AD 407
What is required is not only to suffer for Christ, but to endure what we suffer nobly and with all gladness, since this is the nature of every athlete’s crown. If we do not do so, punishment will come upon us who take disaster with bad grace. This is why the apostles rejoiced when they were beaten, and Paul gloried in his sufferings.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
For what is required is not only to suffer for Christ, but also nobly to bear the things that come on us, and with all gladness: since this is the nature of every crown. Yea, and unless this be so, punishment rather will attend men who take calamity with a bad grace. Wherefore, both the Apostles when they were beaten rejoiced, and Paul gloried in his sufferings.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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